Originally published at: Friday's Fedora Facts: 2022-40 – Fedora Community Blog
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!
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Announcements
- Inactive packagers will be removed after the F37 release.
- Packages still needing a Python 3.11 rebuild will be retired before the Final freeze.
- Upcoming and recent summer time changes
- EPEL 8 modules will be sunset on 31 October.
CfPs
| Conference | Location | Date | CfP |
|---|---|---|---|
| RSA Conference | San Francisco, CA, US | 24–27 Apr | closes 6 Oct |
| OLF | Columbus, OH, US | 2–3 Dec | closes 15 Oct |
| FOSDEM 2023 (devrooms) | Brussels, BE | 4–5 Feb | closes 18 Oct |
| SCaLE 20x | Pasadena, CA, US | 9–12 Mar | closes 2 Dec |
| CypherCon | Milwaukee, WI, US | 30–31 Mar | closes 31 Dec |
| JSDay IE | Dublin, IE | 26 Sep | closes 28 Feb |
Help wanted
- Package review requests:
- Orphaned packages seeking maintainers
- Submit your ideas for the “Feature Spotlight” series in Fedora Magazine
- Volunteers needed for Fedora Week of Diversity 2022
- Volunteers needed for Fedora Badges maintenance.
- The Community Platform Engineering team is hiring a software engineer in India
Meetings & events
- Blocker review meeting — 1600 UTC Monday in #fedora-blocker-review
- Mindshare Committee meeting — 1200 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-mindshare
- FESCo meeting — 1700 UTC Tuesday in #fedora-meeting
- FPgM Office Hours — 1300 UTC Wednesday and 1900 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting-1
- Council meeting — 1400 UTC Wednesday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Social Hour — 2359 UTC Thursday in #social on Fedora.im
- F37 Final Go/No-Go meeting — 1700 UTC Thursday in #fedora-meeting
- Fedora Week of Diversity — 1300–1900 UTC Saturday 15 October in Hopin
Releases
| Release | open bugs |
|---|---|
| F35 | 3988 |
| F36 | 4185 |
| F37 (beta) | 1236 |
| Rawhide | 6417 |
Prioritized Bugs
See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.
| Bug ID | Component | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2129387 | systemd | NEW |
Fedora Linux 37
- 735 packages fail to build from source
- 29 packages fail to install
Schedule
Below are some upcoming schedule dates. See the schedule website for the full schedule.
- 2022-10-18 — Current final target (early target date)
Changes
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| MODIFIED | 1 |
| ON_QA | 44 |
| CLOSED | 2 |
Blockers
| Bug ID | Component | Bug Status | Blocker Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2128662 | abrt | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2131183 | anaconda | ON_QA | Accepted(Final) |
| 2129358 | glibc | POST | Accepted(Final) |
| 2130964 | gnome-calendar | VERIFIED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2130977 | gnome-calendar | VERIFIED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2130981 | gnome-calendar | VERIFIED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2130657 | gnome-contacts | ASSIGNED | Accepted(Final) |
| 2130661 | gnome-contacts | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 2130661 | gnome-shell | NEW | Accepted(Final) |
| 2132769 | gnome-calendar | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 2132772 | gnome-calendar | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 2130937 | gnome-photos | NEW | Proposed(Final) |
| 2132292 | gnome-software | ON_QA | Proposed(Final) |
| 2131673 | imsettings | ON_QA | Proposed(Final) |
| 2123998 | mesa | ASSIGNED | Proposed(Final) |
Fedora Linux 38
- 740 packages fail to build from source
- 30 packages fail to install
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags | System-Wide | FESCo #2817 |
| PHP 8.2 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| SWIG 4.1.0 | Self-Contained | Approved |
| Deprecate python-toml | Self-Contained | Announced |
Fedora Linux 39
Changes
The table below lists proposed Changes.
| Proposal | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| libsoup 3: Part Two | System-Wide | Rejected |
| Replace DNF with DNF5 | System-Wide | FESCo #2870 |
Contributing
Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.